Jason Roberts’s T-shirt stand backed by his club captain

Share via

High ground: Roberts followed through on his threat not to wear a T-shirtJohn Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images

Tony Barrett

Last updated at 12:01AM, October 22 2012

Jobi McAnuff, the Reading captain, has defended Jason Roberts’s refusal to
wear a Kick It Out anti-racism T-shirt at Anfield on Saturday and accused
those, including Sir Alex Ferguson, who criticised the forward’s boycott of
being “out of order”.

In keeping with his announcement before Reading’s meeting with Liverpool,
Roberts refused to don a campaign T-shirt during the warm-up. Unlike some of
his team-mates who removed the garments because of the heat, the 34-year-old
was acting out of a belief that not enough has been done to crack down on
incidents of racism in English football during the past 12